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Stanley, Stuhlmann, Stairs and Scott Elliot. Sir Harry 
Johnston, on the other hand, who did not get as high as 
myself, holds 20,000 ft. as a minimum for some of the 
numerous peaks which he did not even attempt, but as he 
The broad glacier on Sitchwi, the Northern snow ridge of Ingomwimbi. 
says he is judging simply by his eye, his contention is 
necessarily without any weight for actual mountaineers.* 
* Those interested in this matter will find it further discussed by me in an article 
entitled “ First ascent of one of the snow ridges in the Mountains,” and published in 
the Alpine Journal for May, 1902 ; and if the statements contained in this are compared 
with Sir H. Johnston’s account of his later visit to the mountains, published in the 
journal of the Royal Geographical Society, it will probably become apparent that my 
appreciation of a “ literary capacity ” in Sir Harry’s method of treating matters of fact 
was not misplaced. 
